Bodcau Water Works, LA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Bodcau Water Works serves about 159 people through 58 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bossier Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1015021; phone on file: 318-455-3681. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4.9 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bodcau Water Works is 6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
Of the 802 Louisiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.72 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 30 have gone over at some point. Bodcau Water Works's 1.1 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Louisiana and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Bossier Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bodcau Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Bossier City Water System | 79,506 | 1 ppb |
| Village Water System | 24,813 | 0 (not detected) |
| Barksdale Afb Water System | 13,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Benton Water System | 8,037 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cypress Black Bayou Water System | 5,520 | 1.2 ppb |
| Town Of Haughton Water System | 5,355 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sligo Water System Incorporated | 2,850 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Plain Dealing Water System | 2,346 | 1 ppb |
| West Central Bossier Water System | 1,771 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Bossier Water System | 1,755 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Haughton, LA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Haughton, LA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bodcau Water Works whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.